Desert Eagle Air Force Exercise Between UAEe and India

The Exercise Desert Eagle is a bilateral exercise between India and the United Arab Emirates. India and the United Arab Emirates have had a strong bilateral relationship for hundreds of years. In this exercise. The IAF and the UAE Air Force undertook air combat exercises from Al-Dhafra Air Base, Abu Dhabi. These exercises aim to provide exposure to mission planning and the execution of a simulated high threat combat environment. Desert Eagle air Force exercises a friendly relationship between India and the United Arab Emirates.

All about Exercise Desert Eagle-II

The second series of bilateral exercises between the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the United Arab Emirates Air Force was Desert Eagle Exercise -II, completed on June 3, 2016. This was a 10days air combat exercise that started on May 22 in Al-Dhafra Air Base, Abu Dhabi, between IAF and the UAE. The IAF Su 30 MKI participated along with Mirage 2000-9 and F-16 block 60 of the UAE Air Force in the Exercise Desert Eagle-II. The exercise played under various simulated scenarios such as planning to exchange sorties for aircrew of both the Air Forces. After Participating in such exercises, the Indian Air Force can fly against different platforms.

List of Important  Military Exercises by the Indian Air Force

The Indian Air Force has participated in several military exercises. Here are the lists of the latest exercises performed by the Indian Air Force. The types of military exercises of 2022 conducted by the Indian Airforce are classified into three categories: Domestic Exercises, Bilateral Exercises, and Multilateral Exercises.

Domestic Exercise: This exercise aims to improve internal services. It also looks after the applications of inter-services depending on nature. Some of the domestic military exercises are Gandiv Vijay, Vayu Shakti, Vijay Prahar, etc. 

Bilateral Exercise: Bilateral exercises are conducted between the two countries, and they share their military power technologies and equipment to combat the threat of terrorism. The lists of Bilateral exercises by the Indian Airforce are given below.

Multilateral exercises: In this type of exercise, more than two nations are involved. In the RIMPAC exercise, India has participated with several nations such as Australia, Chile, China, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Netherland, Japan, Malaysia, etc. India, Japan, and the United States were involved in the Malabar exercise. Same as South Asian region nations were involved in Samvedna exercise.

Significance of the Desert Eagle exercise

The Exercise Desert Eagle was an outstanding opportunity for the IAF and UAE Air Forces. This exercise enables both air forces to learn from each other and exchange best practices. Thus both air forces would benefit mutually. In his exercise, a wide variety of missions with levels of complexities have been organised. Mission commanders from both air forces participated in the exercise and provided the opportunity to draw the maximum valuable operational lessons. An extensive variety of missions were flown both within visual range and beyond visual range. Aircrew of both nations had learnt to draw significant weapon operating skills. This holds extensive significance as this was one of the major prestigious international exercises that encouraged the IAF to participate in other joint international air force operations. One of them was the Cobra warrior exercise. 

Conclusion

The article talks about, in general, why military exercises and operations are carried out between nations and why it is so important. Along the same lines, we have talked briefly about the exercise Desert Eagle held in the United Arab Emirates, which was hosted for 10 days and ended on June 3, 2016.